Sales Gravy

JANUARY 23, 2024

When a salesperson is genuinely curious, they ask questions that go beyond the standard script. It's about understanding the customer's journey, their challenges, and what they truly value. It's about seeing the world from the customer's perspective, feeling what they feel.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2024

They come from all over the world, they represent B2B, technology , basic materials, SaaS, industrial products, professional services, B2B2C and B2C. Continuous Learning and Personal Growth : A recurring theme is the joy of learning and personal development. Some have had long careers in selling, some are relatively new.

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Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Time To Improve Customer Care for Growth Revising one or more strategies to elevate your brand, reputation, and business dominance position is always possible. But one underlying factor affects everything: The willingness to improve customer care for growth.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every time you use a selfish sales tactic, you’re destroying the trust between you and your buyer — but you’re not just hurting yourself. When a salesperson uses a slimy sales tactic, the entire sales profession takes one step backward. Don’t be this person. Can I help you with anything today?”

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

While his time was probably better spent talking to customers, he took time to have a great conversation. Dave, being obsessed with selling depends upon the story you tell yourself about ‘What is Selling’ If you imagine selling to be Herb Tarlek from WKRP or Vin Diesel as Chris Varick in Boiler Room, you should hate it.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Salespeople say that a change in the sales field that has had the biggest impact on their role is that selling has become more focused on presenting a solution than pitching a product or service. These more informed buyers don’t want a product pitch, which changes the role of a salesperson. Sales trends come and go. Why the change?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible. Our team enhances personalization and efficiency in managing leads and client interactions, tailoring our approach to meet individual needs.

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The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

Closing sales is about consistently moving customers towards a desired action or outcome. To keep the sale moving forward to a successful conclusion, salespeople need to gain a series of commitments from the customer. In this guide, we will explore proven strategies that can help you close more sales and achieve your goals.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2024

Ask any salesperson if they get enough inbound leads. You can bet their answer will be “no.” So, let’s take a look at the trends sellers are reporting about inbound lead flow on RepVue , and three things you can do to still hit your targets. What It Means for Sales Reps So, what exactly does that mean for you?

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Ideal Customer Profile Inbound Lead Rank Lead Scoring 80

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 18, 2024

I want to see you.” For outbound calls, know the client you are calling. Prepare what you want to say. You have seconds to get to your purpose. For inbound calls, imagine customers with problems hearing a genuine “How can I help?” This defines what your call will accomplish and the benefits to the customer.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Once in a great while, you observe people in a particular profession who truly represent that profession with honesty and integrity. One person had something that someone else wanted. The second person offered something that the first person wanted, so that they could exchange and both be satisfied. Salespeople.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most difficult aspects of a salesperson’s job is prospecting. As a sales manager, you can alleviate some of this prospecting pain by engaging your team in targeting and lead scoring. When a salesperson struggles with prospecting, it often doesn’t have anything to do with the nuts and bolts of cold-calling or list building.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 98

Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s great to be a founder led sales company but founder led services delivery is a problem. It took years to structure a scalable services delivery model. The first big lesson, young, affordable, full-time staff didn’t have the requisite skills to replace Jake and properly service the accounts. Let me know if you need help.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Photo by Alexas_Fotos via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Need to Adjust Your Business Model? It can be the point of no return unless you, management, or the entrepreneurial mindset realize it’s time to adjust your business model. The question is, how do you respond to client concerns requiring assistance?

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Basics of Character I previously wrote an ebook , Who Are You? I highly recommend you read it. Who Are You? In that character is one’s destiny, you can see how vital character traits are. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

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Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Building out a sales organization has historically been an incremental process: Scale in a linear fashion by hiring one salesperson at a time. Building out a sales organization has historically been an incremental process: Scale in a linear fashion by hiring one salesperson at a time.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you want a lucrative Q4, read on for the best-kept secrets in the sales world. Image Source You might expect that only B2C sales would increase in Q4, but research suggests otherwise. Now you know there’s some data and reasoning behind increased Q4 sales, here are top tips to help you score more deals. Set a goal.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 3, 2023

In uncertain economic times and a world increasingly influenced by the power of AI, sales-specific emotional intelligence and human-to-human communication are the most important skills a salesperson can have when establishing trust and building relationships with buyers.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2024

It’s been pretty exciting to see the creativity that people all over the world are bringing to AI to improve their processes, create new services, and make being in business more fun and profitable. Let your [smaller thus less expensive] customer service team focus on the bigger and more complicated problems.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Customer Success Bow Tie. Customer success is a vital, yet often overlooked part of keeping and growing a business. All too often, companies struggle with onboarding and engaging their clients in a way that gives the customer maximum value. Highlighting how what you offer can meet a need.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. The skills you learn on the job may also help you climb the sales career ladder. Door-to-door (D2D) sales involves knocking on people’s doors to advertise or sell products/services. But that’s not all.

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Julie Hanson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How should you respond as a leader to this data? Even our most stoic customers were delighted to see us on their screens! Even our most stoic customers were delighted to see us on their screens! In a world filled with AI-generated content, sales and service bots and deepfakes, genuine human connection has increased in value.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 24, 2024

Your digital marketing agency’s USPs could span specialized industry expertise, proprietary technology, exceptional customer service, or competitive pricing. Remember, a strong USP should be compelling enough to attract and retain customers, ultimately enhancing business growth and profitability.

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The Digital Sales Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sales scripts are a valuable tool that can help salespeople have meaningful conversations with customers or prospects. In order to create effective call scripts, you must understand your company’s product and services, what is your value proposition and what problems or pains they solve. What are Sales Scripts?

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How To Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

BuzzBoard

JANUARY 16, 2024

For salespeople navigating the dynamic world of selling digital and media products to small businesses and local enterprises, the term ‘hyper-personalization’ is a potent tool for success. What is Hyper-Personalization? Hyper-personalization is more than just addressing a prospect by their first name in an email.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Will You Utilize the Four Quadrant Strategy To Unlock Success and Achieve Your Vision? Alicia Ramsdell, CCSP, GCDF, MST, CEO of Mindful Career Path, provides our guest blog asking, ‘Do you have the key to unlock success and achieve your vision?’

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Small Business Small Business 98

Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

If we didn’t need sales or account management skills, people would simply buy products or services—which they obviously don’t. We have learned that these skills are just as important as the products or services themselves. Yet to me, we’ve even come to a higher purpose today, which is to create repeat customers!

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Account Customer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

Being a sales superstar requires more than just knowing the key benefits and features of the product or services that you’re selling. So, let’s consider the question: what makes a great salesperson consistently achieve success? Why Is it Good To Have A Positive Mindset in #Sales?

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Pipeliner

MARCH 5, 2022

A salesperson, on the other hand, usually does not. In today’s transparent networked society, it’s difficult to be a dishonest salesperson. That salesperson will be out of a job and won’t have prospects who willingly deal with them. In the same way, a firefighter has a positive reputation in society. From the Inside Out.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 12, 2022

The salesperson who is a constant presence, providing sage wisdom and a steady hand, will secure the sale when buyers are ready. In challenging times, there’s no substitute for a salesperson serving as a trusted partner and advisor to help buyers succeed. Sure, you can present a short-term solution that solves an immediate problem.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you examine what salespeople are actually doing, they are creating wealth and producing peace, which we’ll illustrate in more detail as we go in this article. They interact with customers, build real connections, and exhibit certain vital character traits. How do they do these things? Why should salespreneurs operate this way?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2023

There are many different types of people you come across in your sales career. But founders are the final decision-makers at their company — so working directly with founders is a great way to cut through the noise and sell directly to the person who will be signing the check. You could keep your first communications formal.

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Decision Maker ROI Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 92

Alice Heiman

MARCH 21, 2022

Yes, you heard me correctly, and I hear you saying, “Whaaat? Are you kidding me? ” If you are of the mindset that sales is about sellers , your sales leaders should be leading that effort, but even then, you have a role to play in sales. It’s more important now than ever that CEOs lead sales.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

More than ever, people want to do work that’s personally meaningful and connects with their values. More than ever, people want to do work that’s personally meaningful and connects with their values. For salespeople, this means feeling aligned with why they’re selling a product or service and authentically engaging with customers.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

The modern salesperson still feels that the field is their rightful place of battle. And when they do gear up and venture forth, their efforts on that front are increasingly erring towards customer service activities. It’s frustrating — and a source of great embarrassment — but there’s nothing the salesperson can do about it.

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Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 111

Allego

JULY 28, 2022

What can I do to get you into this car today?”). (“What can I do to get you into this car today?”). But in today’s B2B world, sales teams must think of selling as a service—the service of helping people buy, said Allego President & Co-founder Mark Magnacca. That’s where sales enablement comes in, he said.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Top of Funnel Face-to-face 115

Vengreso

JUNE 6, 2023

By adopting these proven techniques, you can elevate your own skills and propel your team to new heights. Additionally, we will discuss how leveraging referrals can lead to higher-value deals and greater customer satisfaction. In this Modern Selling Podcast episode will examine best approaches needed to become a 1% earner.

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